200 All Time Best Life Changing Quotes Of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

1. “Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. “People die, but books never die.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. “I have a terrific headache.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. “Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. “True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. “If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I’d do is join a union.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. “Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are and should be, open to all.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
9. “New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
10. “We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
11. “I am neither bitter nor cynical, but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
12. “Books cannot be killed by fire.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. “My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
14. “Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
15. “All work undertaken should be useful – not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
16. “Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
17. “Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
18. “There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
19. “I love it – I just love it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
20. “I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
21. “The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly miss guess public opinion will last very long.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
22. “A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
23. “Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
24. “A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
25. “There are as many opinions as there are experts.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. “Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
27. “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead – and find no one there.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
28. “The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
29. “It is fun to be in the same decade with you.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
30. “Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
31. “Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
32. “Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
33. “I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.”
34. “The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
35. “If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
36. “A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
37. “We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution – not over it. In our courts, we want a government of laws and not of men.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
38. “Research is one of the Nation’s very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
39. “We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
40. “In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
41. “The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
42. “Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
43. “Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
44. “Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
45. “I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
46. “The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
47. “Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
48. “Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
49. “We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
50. “I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
51. “It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
52. “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
53. “All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
54. “To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
55. “Organized money hates me – and I welcome their hatred!” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
56. It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.”
57. “The first twelve years are the hardest.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
58. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
59. “Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
60. “If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
61. “That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
62. “No man can take a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
63. “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
64. “Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
65. “To reach a port, we must sail – Sail, not tie at anchor – Sail, not drift.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
66. “Calm seas never made a good sailor.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
67. “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
68. “The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
69. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
70. “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
71. “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
72. “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
73. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
74. “Let us move forward with strong and active faith.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
75. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
76. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
77. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
78. “Above all, try something.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
79. “People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
80. “Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
81. “Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
82. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
83. “Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
84. “I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
85. “Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning, and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
86. “Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institution can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
87. “So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
88. “This nation asks for action, and action now.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
89. “In our personal ambitions, we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else all go down as one people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
90. “Continued dependence on relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
91. “This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive, and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
92. “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
93. “As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
94. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
95. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
96. “We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
97. “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
98. “We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
99.  “The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now – not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
100. “Great power involves great responsibility.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
101. “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
102. “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
103. “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
104. “If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
105. “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
106. “Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
107. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
108. “More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
109. “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
110. “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
111. “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
112.  “With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace – a peace invulnerable to the scheming of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
113. “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
114. “If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance, we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
115. “The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
116. “Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
117. “The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
118. “They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
119. “I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
120. “A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
121. “When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
122. “We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
123. “On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
124. “Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
125. “All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
126. “No man can take a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
127. “Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
128. “We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
129. “Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom reality.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
130. “Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
131. “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
132. “I do not believe in communism any more than you do, but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
133. “Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say, and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
134. “Necessitous men are not free men.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
135. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
136. “Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
137. “We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
138. “We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
139. “We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people’s freedom.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
140.  “The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
141. “Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
142. “Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
143. “The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
144. “We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than life on our knees.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
145. “Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly, are among the very fundamentals of democracy, and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
146. “Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
147. “Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
148. “Peace, like charity, begins at home.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
149. “We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
150. “Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
151. “We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
152. “I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
153. “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
154. “Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
155. “Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
156. “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
157. “The real safeguard of democracy is education.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
158. “No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
159. “Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
160. “I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
161. “In our democracy, officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
162. “Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
163. “Presidents are selected, not elected.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
164. “The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
165. “Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
166. “No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
167. “We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
168. “Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
169. “It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it has free and independent labor unions.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
170. “The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
171. “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
172. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
173. “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
174. “We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
175. “No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
176. “I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
177. “We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life-giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
178. “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
179. “A nation, like a person, has a mind – a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors – all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
180. “The best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
181.  “The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
182. “The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
183. “In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
184. “Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
185. “Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the businessmen of every industrial area in the whole country.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
186. “Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
187. “All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
188. The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
189. “It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer, and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
190. “I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
191. “Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people’s money, other people’s business, other people’s labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
192. “I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
193. “The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
194. “We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
195. “The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
196. “The fate of America cannot depend on anyone man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
197. “There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
198. “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
199. “Inside the polling booth, every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
200. “I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of doctorship” Franklin D. Roosevelt